CHANNEL-OPATHY IS A DISEASE INVOLVING DYSFUNTION OF AN ION CHANNEL. CHANNEL-OPATHIES ARE KNOWN TO INVOLVE THE ION CHANNELS FOR POTASSIUM, SODIUM, CHLORIDA AND CALCIUM.

ION CHANNELS ARE CRITICAL TO THE MEMBRANES SURROUNDING EVERY LIVING CELL.

BY THE WAY, THE BALDELLIS TELL ME ROCCO HAS NOT BEEN CONTACTED BY THE RED SOX.

That's Ken Bell reporting for ABC 6 out of Rocco's native Rhode Island, which is why the Red Sox bit was appended at the end. Gotta keep it local, people!

Besides, Baldelli's free agent prospects just widened a bit and the Sox have allegedly been a target all along. If this 'channelopathy' is really a non-progressive and fully treatable disease, perhaps he will be able to be a full-time outfielder and not just a platoon guy. Still, if you believe Wikipedia, channelopathy is just a way of categorizing other diseases like cystic fibrosis, which doesn't sound very good at all. Either way, Walkoff Walk wishes Rocco a full recovery from whatever it is that's getting him down.

I wish him all the best, but it sure was fun to heckle a guy with a mitochondrial problem. How many players do you get to say actually have inferior DNA? And since mitochondrial DNA is maternal, there was always the ace in the hole that his mother gave him a disease for the ultimate your-mom heckle.